God is an ever receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.
In physics, opinions don’t matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won’t need anybody else’s opinion.
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.
Photography is a form of time travel.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
I always wanted to be respected for my mind...
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.
If you’re a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you’re not going to be a good scientist.
Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.
To believe in a universe as young as 6- or 7,000 years old, is to extinguish the light of most of the galaxy.
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it’s not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.
The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there’s an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I’m intrigued by that possibility.